Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 24 Sep 2001 10:41:53 -0600 | From | Erik Andersen <> | Subject | Re: /proc/partitions hosed |
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On Mon Sep 24, 2001 at 01:26:13PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > It didn't get trough the boot-sequence (RedHat-7.1). > > After some investigation it turned out that it hang in > > the kudzu script, and further on also in the netfs script. > > The programs `/usr/sbin/updfstab', `/usr/sbin/kudzu' and > > the command `mount -a' are all falling into a loop. > > The scsi partition handling code in 2.4.10 is broken > > The cause seems to be the new gendisk changes, although quite why is still > a mystery.
I didn't have time to dig into it, since I needed to get some work done. So I reverted drivers/scsi/sd.c to stock 2.4.9, which made the problem go away for me,
-Erik
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